What do you get if you cross a double mega pixel digit SLR camera, a swiss army knife, a zippo lighter, Photoshop and an over worked imagination, the Nokia 6639.

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How would you like having your mobile’s internet connection as fast as your home Adsl? Well, depending on what you are getting from the Adsl provider it can even be faster than a home connection!

The Italian provider TIM (Telecom Italia Mobiles) just announced a new service called “TIM UMTS Hi-Speexd” that will provide mobile internet access with speeds that go up to 3,6 Megabits per second. Users will be able to connect to the Internet directly from the mobile phone or through the use of a Hi-Speed PC card that is integrated into a notebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Probably most of you are familiar with Vertu, a subsidiary of Nokia that produces luxury mobile phones. The “economic” version of their mobile phones start selling at $4,000 a pop. In some cases, however, the price can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, like the limited edition (only 34 mobile phones will be produced) of the Bucheron phones which can cost as much as $300,000. Most handsets present finishes in gold or platinum, featuring a sapphire-crystal screen and ruby bearings.

Vertu just landed in India to present a new line called “Signature Diamonds”, which will sell for $50,000 each. India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, and it has a strong appetite for luxury products. It represents the largest market for gold products and detains almost 60% of the international diamonds market.
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These have got to be the smallest earpieces I’ve ever seen, the micro earpieces slot into your ears and are near invisible.

I’m pleased to say all models are wireless (having an invisible earpiece with a wire dangling from it would have kind of defeated the object). Communications is via Bluetooth or an inductive coil that you wear under your clothes.

They may be small but they’re certainly not cheap with prices starting at over $200. More info over at wintec, thanks to fellow gadget enthusiast MystD for the heads up on these tiny devices.

Vodafone Italy and Disney are about to launch a mobile phone aimed at the young folks between the ages of 8 and 13. Italy has over 3 million families with children that fall into that age bracket, and it is estimated that 50% of those kids already have a mobile phone.

Most parents, however, are worried with the security issues that may arise when their kids go around with a mobile phone that was develop for an “adult” use. A market research revealed that the main concerns are related to the improper use of Internet through the mobile phone and to strangers that might be able to interact with their children for obscure reasons.
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So you’re stuck on the phone with your Aunt Annie who always has tons of things to say, and being a phlegmatic, you have this inborn trait of not knowing how to say no and end the conversation politely as your World of Warcraft character is getting bashed right in front of your eyes as she rambles on and on about her latest outing with the rest of the girls at the local Hat Club. How do you tell her that you really need to go and you don’t really care about what she has to share with you? Enter the Excuse Box which will save many a frustrated moment.

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Bluetooth isn’t something known only to geeks anymore. Tons of phones and even cars come with Bluetooth these days.

If you don’t have a Bluetooth package in your car, you can still use a headset so that you can use your phone wirelessly. Plantronics offers some high end, feature packed Bluetooth headsets that are expensive, but deliver some great and innovative features.
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No, the word ‘Ivory’ does not stand for its brand, neither is it a new line of cellphones. In fact, it is actually made from some really tough hair which is better known as ivory, hence it’s namesake. The luxury cellphone was designed in the bowels of Guangzhou, China, where the street culture permits all sorts of exotic fanfare such as monkey brains and dog soup, making something as unsavory as an Ivory cellphone look pretty ordinary.

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